Baling-press.



A, BENSON.

BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 27, 1914.

1,125.,93n Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

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we; STATES PATENT FFICE.

AXLE BENSON, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 NO-SAG GATE COMPANY, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BALING-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

Application filed April 27, 1914. Serial No. 834,671.

To all 1071 0m it may concern Be it known that I, AXLE BnNsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Baling-Press, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates primarily to that general class of machines used for baling sacks which have contained or are to contain cement, plaster, etc., and which, being of relatively valuable material, are usually returned to the mill or factory for refilling.

Concisely stated, the principal object of my invention is to improve the construction and increase the capacity, utility, effectiveness and efficiency of presses of this type.

More specifically stated, it is a main object of the invention to provide novel means for acting on the sides of the sacks to be baled. whereby they will be placed in better position than heretofore. for bringing the ends of the wires around to tying position.

Another object is to provide novel means for supporting the sacks.

Still another obiect is to provide novel means for supporting the sack-supporting means.

It is an object to provide a novel lock for the baling means.

A further obicct is to provide for adiusting the side-compressors in order to quickly adjust the device for baling relatively wide or narrow sacks: and in this connection it may be here stated that heretofore it has been customary to make presses of this type either in large and small sizes, or else to provide an attachment. in order that both cement and plaster sacks-which are made in commercial sizes and are very different in their dimensions-may both be baled. In the first event, it became necessary for the customer to purchase a large and a small press; in the last event he was compelled to buy an attachment, and each time he used it on sacks of the wrong size he had to either place or remove the attachmentand to provide a press which will require no extraneous means in order to accommodate and bale either plaster or cement sacks constitutes a special object. e

That both the movable and the stationary parts be strong, durable, simple, effective,

and not liable to injury or to breakage is a prime factor, and to provide a press possessing these requisites is an object of the invention.

Minor objects will be in part in part specifically pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists in arious improvements in baling presses of this type, directed more particularly to the balecompressing elements, the bale-securing means. the frame and the means connected severally and jointly with the means definitely above recited, for carrying out the ends and objects stated.

In order that the nature and manner of operation may be fully understood. I have hereto appended a sheet of drawings showing the structure at present preferred by me.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation, seen from one end; Fig. 2. an elevation. seen from the other end. and the parts in different relative pos tions therefrom: Fig. 3, a top plan: and Fig. 4. an enlarged detail. a section. partly in elevation. taken in the plane of the line 44 in F g. 3.

Describing in detail the device illustrated. and referring to the parts the eof each by a distingu shed numeral. unifo ml employed in the several views. 2 designates either leg: 3. the front (u per) f ame-b r; 4. the rear (upper) frame-bar: and 5. 5. the up er end-framears. all of wh ch a e preferabl constructed of o d nary gas-nine and uni ed b any suitable 3-way couplings. 6.

7, 7 designate b ackets. each sec ed by a set-screw 8 to a leg 2. and 9. 1O designate the lower transverse frame-bars engaged with said brackets.

11 designa es a longitudinally arranged lower f ame-bar.

12 indicates a floo rig dl secu ed to the bars 5 by cli s or U-bolts l3 and nuts 14, and is provided at each of its ends with a groove 15.

16. 16 designate treadle leve s. pivoted at 16' to the frame bars 9. 10. Their adiacent ends are un ted by a o t 17 and nut 18 and carry a pedal 19 suitably secured thereon. These parts ma be termed the treadle. Pivoted at 44 to the rear end of each lever 16 is a main push-bar 20. the upper portion of which isslidahle in the elongated slot obvious and 21 of a bracket 22 slidably secured one bar 5, and adapted to be locked in selective" placement by a-set screw 23.

16 is a boss on each treadle lever.- .24, 24' designate .bent push-bars, their lower ends pivoted at 25 to the main bars 20 and their upper ends working loosely in the elongated slots 26 of brackets 27 slid ably mounted one on each end bar 5; 28 designates a set-screw by which each bracket 27 may be locked in selective placement on said bar. The upper end of each bar 20 has an eye which receives a gudgeon 29 secured in the end of a resser-roll 30, and the upper end of each bar 24 has an eye for the reception of a gudgeon 31 seated in the'end of a presser-roll 32. g I v v 33, 33 designate drag-bars,'one pivoted at 34 to each lever 16 and having each at its upper end an eye 35 adapted to receive a removable compression bar 36. The bars 33. work in the notches 15 in the ends of the floor 12.

v 37 indicates a lock-bar hinged on the frame-bar 3 (see Fig.3) and provided at its lower end with a hook 38adapted to engage the bolt 17 g v 39, 39 designate sleeves, any suitable number of which may beslidably secured on the rods3, 4 by means of setscrews 40, and

each sleeve is provided with an interiorly arranged recess41.

42, 42 indicate baling wires, the bent ends of which are adapted to engagethe eyes .or. recesses 41..

The operation is as follows: It is preferred that the ends of the previously cut baling-wires be bent and engaged with the eyes 41 as shown, but if preferred they may merely be laid on the rolls 30,32. In either event the sacks are then laid on said wires until a sufficient number has been placed to constitute a bale. One end of the compression bar 36 is then inserted in one of the eyes 35 and some forcebrought to bear upon the other end to slightly compress the stacked sasks, whereupon the other end of said bar is inserted in the other eye 35. The operator will then bear upon the pedal 19 and thereby depress the free ends of the treadle levers 18, whichv being fulcrumed intermediate the pivotal points 34-44 and acting as a compound lever of the first order, will draw downward the drag bars 33 and force upward the push-bars 22 and 24. The bar 36 will thus be forcibly drawn down upon the midlengths of the .stack of sacks, and the rolls 30-32 willforce their edges upwardly, The midlength of the lower sackwill be forced against the floor 12, whereby they are very forcibly compacted, whiletheir upper ends will be inthe most advantageous position to begbrought over andsecured into a bale 'by merely intertwisingthe ends of the wire. -,T he latter being "soft', the bent endsthereofwillbe drawn from the eyes 41 during the movement ofthe bar 35. And when the bale is completed, said bar may readily be withdrawn therefrom.

It is desirable to provide some means for locking the baling devices when the above described operation has been completed. For this purpose I have provided the locking-bar 37. Being a gravity lock, it will be in contact with the bolt 17 as the latter moves downward in the operation of compressing the sacks, but immediately upon the bolt having passed the initial bend 45 thereof, it will by gravity fall forward (relatively. to the treadle mechanism) and its hook 38 will rest upon said bolt to prevent the treadle and thereby the several means connected therewith from movement.

Assume that in the positions shown in the drawings the machine is adjusted for baling relatively small sacks. If it be desired to bale larger ones, the set screws 23-28 may be loosened and the brackets 22-27' spaced farther apart, whereby the rollers 30-32 will also be spaced farther apart, when said screws may be tightened to again lock said brackets. The elongated slots in the brackets permit of free movement, the bars 20-24 therein to provide for the slight angularity of said bars thus occasioned.

In the accompanying drawings all my improvements are shown as embodied in the best way now known to me; obviously, however, some ofthese constructions may vary in constructive details, arrangement and disposition from what I have shown, and some may be used without the others. I therefore desire to be understood as claiming all such advantages as may accrue. from modifications thereof, and as-defined in the claims hereof.

Having thus described the nature of my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent the following, namely:

1.'A baling press comprising a frame. a

floor secured thereto, rollers for acting 'on the sidesv of the material to be baled, and means for forcing the longitudinal central portion of said material toward said floor. 2. A baling press comprising a frame, a floor secured thereto, rollers for acting on the sides of the material to bebaled. and removable means for forcing the longitudinal central portion of said material toward said floor. V

3. A baling press comprising a frame, a. floor secured thereto, means elevatable bodily, forac'tingon the sides'of the material 'beingbaled, and meansfor forcing the longitudinal central portion of-said material toward said floor. v

4. A baling press comprising aframe, a floor secured thereto,,,plural means elevata'b'lebodily, for acting onthe sides of the material being baled, means for locking the elements of said plural means at different distances apart, and means for forcing the longitudinal central portion of said material toward said floor.

5. A baling press comprising a frame, a floor secured thereto, brackets in couples, one couple secured at each end of the frame, push-bars operating in pairs, one pair in each couple of brackets, plural bale-sidecompression means carried by the oppositely arranged push bars, drag-bars arranged intermediate said plural bale-side-compression means, a bale-compressing element carried by said drag-bars, and means for simul- 15 taneously operating all of said bars.

Witnesses:

MARGARET R. LARSON, CARRIE J. BLESSING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

